Tape Printing Apparatus, Paragraph Arrangement Deciding Method for Tape Printing Apparatus, and Program for Same

1. A tape printing apparatus capable of printing plural paragraphs arrayed in a longitudinal direction of a tape, with each paragraph including one or more lines, the apparatus comprising: a paragraph creating unit which creates the paragraphs; a feeding quantity setting unit which sets a quantity of feeding between the paragraphs in the longitudinal direction of the tape, a positive quantity of feeding corresponding to a quantity of tape fed in the longitudinal direction and a negative quantity of feeding corresponding to a quantity of tape fed in a direction opposite the longitudinal direction; an arrangement deciding unit which decides an arrangement of each paragraph on the basis of the setting by the feeding quantity setting unit; and a printing unit which prints each paragraph created by the paragraph creating unit on the tape in a manner that realizes the arrangement decided by the arrangement deciding unit, wherein: when the quantity of feeding is set at the positive value, the arrangement deciding unit decides a starting position of a print area of a subsequent paragraph such as to be spaced apart from a print area of a previous paragraph created directly before the subsequent area, and when the quantity of feeding is set at the negative value, the arrangement deciding unit decides the starting position of the print area of the subsequent paragraph such as to be disposed within the print area of the previous paragraph or at the starting position of the print area of the previous paragraph.

2. The tape printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the feeding quantity setting unit can set the quantity of feeding by selecting one of plural options, and the options include a first option to align and superimpose a starting position of the subsequent paragraph to a starting position of a paragraph that is created immediately before the subsequent paragraph.

3. The tape printing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the options include a second option to arrange the starting position of the subsequent paragraph at a position that is away by a predetermined amount from a starting position or an ending position of a paragraph that is created immediately before the subsequent paragraph.

4. The tape printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the feeding quantity setting unit can set the quantity of feeding in one of millimeters, inches, the number of dots, and the number of characters.

5. The tape printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each paragraph created by the paragraph creating unit has a uniform length in a direction of width of the tape after printing.

6. A paragraph arrangement deciding method for a tape printing apparatus capable of printing plural paragraphs arrayed in a longitudinal direction of a tape, with each paragraph including one or more lines, the method comprising: creating the paragraphs; setting a quantity of feeding between the paragraphs in the longitudinal direction of the tape, a positive quantity of feeding corresponding to a quantity of tape fed in the longitudinal direction and a negative quantity of feeding corresponding to a quantity of tape fed in a direction opposite the longitudinal direction; and deciding an arrangement of each paragraph on the basis of the quantity of feeding that is set, wherein: when the quantity of feeding is set at the positive value, a starting position of a print area of a subsequent paragraph is decided such as to be spaced apart from a print area of a previous paragraph created directly before the subsequent area, and when the quantity of feeding is set at the negative value, a starting position of a print area of a subsequent paragraph is decided such as to be disposed within the print area of the previous paragraph or at the starting position of the print area of the previous paragraph.

7. A program stored on a non-transitory storage medium, the program causing a computer to execute each operation of the paragraph arrangement deciding method for the tape printing apparatus according to claim 6 .

8. The tape printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein: in the case where the quantity of feeding is set at the negative value for a subsequent paragraph created secondly or later, the arrangement deciding unit decides the arrangement of the subsequent paragraph in a manner that the subsequent paragraph is superimposed on at least one paragraph of one or more paragraphs that are created before the subsequent paragraph.